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Linda Richards, LPC

  • Experience21 years
  • LocationWisconsin
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Family
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Linda

Linda Richards is a licensed professional counselor with more than two decades working in mental health, with a strong focus on trauma and its many presentations.

Background and approach

She brings 21 years of experience to helping people identify and move past the personal stuck points that often underlie anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and patterns of behavior that feel baffling or self-defeating. Her LPC credential (WI LPC 3224-125) reflects longstanding clinical practice in Wisconsin.

Her approach combines mind-body methods and evidence-informed therapies to address how early wounds and life events shape emotion, behavior, and relationships. Linda draws on Internal Family Systems alongside attachment-aware and somatic practices, integrating EMDR and mindfulness-based techniques to help clients process intense memories, reduce symptoms, and rebuild emotional balance.

She also uses motivational interviewing and other skill-building strategies when helpful. Clients who seek her support can expect a clinician who frames difficulties as understandable responses to life experience and who emphasizes practical tools alongside exploratory work.

Sessions are offered via multiple online formats to increase accessibility, and subscription-based scheduling allows flexibility according to each person’s needs and availability.

Approaches that translate to online trauma work



Internal Family Systems (IFS) focuses on identifying and dialoguing with the different parts inside a person - for example vulnerable, protective, or reactive parts - to reduce inner conflict and foster greater self-leadership. It can help people understand repetitive patterns and shift how they relate to difficult emotions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured method to help process distressing memories and the emotions tied to them, often used for trauma-related symptoms and intrusive memories. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to relational patterns formed early in life and explores how those connections influence current relationships and emotional regulation.

Choosing the right combination of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to consider their history, goals, and comfort with different techniques, adapting the plan as progress unfolds and preferences emerge.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to access care from home. These formats can support skill practice between sessions, ongoing check-ins, and steady therapeutic progress while accommodating differing communication needs and life rhythms.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
Her practice covers stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting issues, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and related areas listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She blends somatic awareness, mindfulness, and trauma-focused techniques within a reflective, collaborative approach that helps clients explore internal parts, attachment patterns, and practical coping skills.
What is her background and experience?
She has worked in mental health since 1997 with a specific focus on trauma and how it appears across many presentations, bringing 21 years of direct clinical experience to her work.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She holds the LPC credential in Wisconsin with licence number WI LPC 3224-125 and practices while based in Wisconsin.
Does she work with clients who speak other languages or international clients?
Sessions are conducted in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available for meetings?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How does billing and cost work for therapy with her?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability; services are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseDepression

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTGriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesCo-morbidityControl issuesDissociationFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFirst responder issuesGuilt and shameHoardingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

21+ years

Licensed

Wisconsin

Languages

English